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A crucial part of our visualization library is being able to visualize graphs. For various reasons outlined here, we've decided to develop our own graph layout library called nodal.
Finally after weeks of development, the first version of nodal is public!! We had to learn how to use Gatsby.js to create an optimized and beautiful static site, but luckily everything felt super familiar since it's just built on top of React.
Landing Page: https://vizstack.github.io/nodal/
We spend over 70 hours this week (🤓) improving various bits and pieces of nodal, to prepare it for its public debut:
- Allow
Rectangleto constrain its children - Allow
Rectangleto constrain its ports to the boundary.- Both specific sides and any side
- Rewrite
toSchema/fromSchemato use shapes - Write tests for
Rectanglebounds, boundary, and constrainPointOnBoundary - Fix the spring model bug causing strong long range forces
- Write
RMSPropOptimizer,TrustRegionOptimizer, andScheduledOptimizer - Further improve "limp noodle" problem on long graphs.
- Allow separation of
Nodesfrom boundary-to-boundary, rather than center-to-center.